FDA regulatory compliance is a mission-critical requirement. If the FDA finds a manufacturer to be non-compliant to or in violation of FDA rules, the consequences can be severe with warning letters, mandatory product recalls, temporary shutdowns, criminal penalties and fines depending on the severity of the violation. These penalties imposed by FDA could seriously dent the manufacturer’s brand image and at times could even cripple the manufacturer financially.

In 2010 the Adani Group broke ground on a new solid cargo handing port with the installation of a unique conveyor system that moves up to 6000 t/h to a rail loading silo approx. 4.75 kilometres from the port. These conveyors are supported by lightweight triangular galleries that do not include walkways and are maintained with a motorised trolley.

Claimed to be Mozambique’s first onshore LNG development, the project is expected to supply initial volumes of approximately 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

British engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler announces the award of a contract by Yuhuang Chemical (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company (SYCC), for its first major project in the US, a 1.7 million tons per year world-scale methanol facility on the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, DSM, Google and Philips have started receiving power from the Bouwdokken wind farm in the Netherlands. The companies established an energy purchasing consortium that enabled construction of two Dutch wind farm projects.

And the winners are: Borealis has announced the winners of its 2011 Borealis Student Innovation Awards. On January 19, 2012 Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, presented Rana Qudaih and Dr. Said Mehdiabadi with their awards, certificates and monetary prizes at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

Trinseo marked the opening of its new pilot plant and solution-styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. The production expansion adds additional 50 KT of S-SBR capacity to the site and increases the company’s global S-SBR production by 33 %.

For the expansion of Bhushan Steel’s steel plant at Meramandali, india, Larsen and Toubro carried out the design, engineering, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the raw material handling system that included 43 kilometres of belt conveyors.

Graphene is making the transition from research journals to commercial applications. This article discusses a new class of nano-material and their commercialization in wide ranging applications.

Exxon Mobil announced a growth strategy to more than double earnings and cash flow from operations by 2025 at today’s oil prices. Growth plans include steps to increase earnings by more than 100 % — to $ 31 billion by 2025 at 2017 prices — from last year’s adjusted profit of $ 15 billion, which excluded the impact of US tax reform and impairments.